Little Falls transcript., 1887-03-18
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FROM OTHER COUNTRIES. 4
& "a PARIsIAN hotel, recent establishad, IL:
being run on the hetsAmerican 8 method IN
T., TH1 interesting assertion comes from
PARIS that In the last year tho dogs there
killed ], U0, ,00o rats. 8.s. III p ss,g
= INthe porthwest provinces of India, ia.
cluding Oudi, there are a, ,0o0,010 Hirdooss
and Mohammedanstc crowded into an area
OF 1o6, ,lo3 sluare miles. d sT ss 5.s5 6 b: :,
DURING the year 1885 twelve deaths were
reported in England from chloroform, and
three from ether. None are known to have
occurred from any other an@sthetc
A aEsrLEAAN who has Just returned
from Germany says that. there is q good
point and bad point about German coffea.s
The good point ID, thatit contains no chico
ry; the bad point is that 1t contains nd
coffea n 8. ..s.s.s ..&%......
A RECORD of mining accidents in the.
Australian colony Of Victoria. has been
kept during the past twelve years The
averagenumber Of deaths caused by cas-.
ualties% in mines has been fifty nine per
annum.
I @ ssArA San. = young Japanese LADY
writer, has been taken on the editorial
sta6 Of one OF the best papers in the City
Of Toxic. This is the first woman in the
kingdom who has been admitted within the
circle Of journalism
An Austrian electrical named Marcus is
supplying the German navy with newly.
invented petroleum engine for torpedo.
boats. The engin is set in motion by cleo.
tro~magnetism, and is more powerful than
a steam engine of the same size
SOCIETIES for the advancement of dress
reform for women have been established
in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
They intend to work ON the same lines as
the English Rational Dress Society, and, a.
far as possible, in connection with it.
THE Queen Of Greece takes her airings in
carriage for which she paid i've Thousand
dollars. 1t was built for the trinm phal
entry Of the Comte de Chambord into
Paris, which never took place, owing ia
circumstances over which the Comte had
no control. .,
A LoNa-FoRaoTTBN portrait of Byron,
painted in Venice in 1915 by Natalie
Schiavoni, and representing the poet
seated at q coffee-table smoking, and
wearing high hat and voluminous cloak,
has been discovered among some unap-
preciated relics at Fuime, Hungary.
A FHExcH lawyer asked peasant two
francs for a case which he had won TO,
him. THAT is DEAR" said the peasant.
1.-TWO francs or nothing" said the lawyer.
"Ahl nothing suits me better; good day;
much obliged,' replied the peasant, to tho
surprise of the lawyer.
The use of ckel-plated cooking vessels
has been forbidden by Government order
in Lower Austria. 1t is stated, as the rea.
son for this action, that vinegar and other
acid substances dissolve nickel; and tha,
this, in portions Of one-seventh of grain,
causes vomiting, and is even more poison,
Gus than copper:
The feasibility OF using the telephone
upon moving trains, especially where the
traffic is not crowded, has been satistao
torily demonstrated by experiments upon
thirty three German railroads. On heavier
lines, it appears, the telephone has no,
proved sufficient for the purpose, and has
been used az an auxiliary to the telegraph
TEE largest farm in England has, it il
sale, been thrown upon its owners hands.
It is in Lincolnshire, and consists of 2, ,7oC
acres: The tenant paid 81, per acre. This
year q reduction Of fifty per cent. was
made to him, but finding, although an ex
perienced and energetic farmer, that even
at the reduction he could not make two
ends meet, he has thrown UP his farm.
| A SWISS journal thanks publicly an
| anonymous benefactress III Vienna who
whenever distressing accident is reported
IN the Swiss papers, sends considerable
sums OF money to the editor for distribution
among the victims of the calamity. She is
especially desirous of alleviating the mis-.
cry of laborers who have met with an acci.
dent in the discharge of their duties.
A CURIOUS sight illustrated the poverty
| of some of the London population A boy
! of about sixteen years of age offered tc
| swim in the mud for six-pence and LAY
fat on his stomach in the middle of the
| muddy street, while making motions with
his arms and legs to represent man swim
ming A couple of well-dressed young
men stood on the sidewalk, amused at tht
exhibition which their pennies produced.
OWING mainly to the exertions Of Crow,
Prince Rudolph. vaccination has been made
compulsory in the Austrian army. since
last October all the soldiers in active
service have been vaccinated, and the
! effects of this measure are manifestinf
themselves in the fact that among thu
thirty to forty small pox cases which have
daily been reported in Pesth for some
months, there has not been single soldier
THE Belgian Government offers q priz,
of five thousand dollars, to be awarded il
1859, to the author of the best work on thu
! progress of electricity in it's uses as a mo
| tor and for lighting purposes, and all ap
| phcations that can bo made Of it Tor sucl
/ purposes, and the economy and advantagei
which its use may offer. The prize is ope1
to all nationalities, and the manuscript ma,
be written in English. French, Flemish